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From: brian@apt.UUCP (Brian Litzinger)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Thinwire Ethernet
Message-ID: <1648@apt.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 02:07:23 GMT
References: <1381@ndmath.UUCP>
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From article <1381@ndmath.UUCP>, by milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson):

> If you want to install thinwire Ethernet to a series of single-person offices
> it seems to present a problem.  As I recall, you can't have a drop-cable
> going from the T connector to the thinwire interface card.  This seems to
> prevent you from having a simple wall jack that you can plug into to get
> ethernet service (unless you imbed transcevers in the wall...which is an
> extra cost considering a lot of computers already have them built-in)

A number of coax cable and connector manufacturers have a product
called triax, single shield, two wire coax.  I've seen it at the
local electronics/hardware store in my area.  There are also
connectors to convert triax to dual BNC.

Thus, you can run your network to triax connectors on your wall plates,
run triax to the computer in your office, and convert to BNC at the
computer.  The one draw back to this solution is that you have to
plug a shorted triax connector on the wall tap when it is not in use.

All in all though, seems like a fairly inexpensive solution, at least
until you find out how much triax costs. 8-)

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